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Friday, March 27, 2009

97 years old doctor & this is what he has to say....

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At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation's top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.

Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.

All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common: None are overweight... For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work.. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat..

Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!

There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100...

Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.

When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can't cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.

To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.

My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.

Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.

Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.

Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St.... Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.

Science alone can't cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.

Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.

Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at DukeUniversity in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.

It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.

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Name: CSCQ Kepong Station

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

中国鹤翔庄气功简称鹤功，我们是一群鹤功的爱好及修炼者，我们的练功时间：每星期一及四从晚上八点至九点半，地点是甲洞帝沙华文小学之食堂前。欢迎各界参与我们的练功活动，请光临多多指教。
We practice twice weekly on every Monday and Thursday from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm at our station located at SRJK (C) Taman Desa Jaya, Jalan 31, Taman Desa Jaya, 52100 Kuala Lumpur. You are welcome to join us in our practice.

The practice of Qigong is for the strengthening of our body and curing of diseases. To make it effective, we will have to satisfy the following 3 requirements:

(1) We must have trust. Firstly, we must have trust in ourselves and secondly, we must have trust in Qigong. Qigong is a science that explores the secrets of our human body and life messages.
Its special effects exploit our bodyâ€™s potential and bring about self curative measures. We will have to trust ourselves in the use of Qigong practice for the curing of chronic diseases. Believe that through persistent and consistent Qigong practice, these diseases will certainly be cured together with the improvement in the quality of our physical body.

(2) We must have determination. We must not be afraid of hardship and tiredness. In times of difficulties, we have to stay firm in our determination to overcome all difficulties. We must be determined to bring positive results to our Qigong practice. Overcome the little time we may have owing to our busy work schedules and household chores.
Especially when we encounter recurrence of the diseases we used to have due to the flow of Qi in our Qigong practice, we must stay firm and continue the practice without interruptions.

(3) We must be persistent. Qigong practice needs persistency and perseverance in order to achieve good results. Do not simply interrupt the Qigong practice or stop practicing when we feel better.
This brings about the wastage of our previous efforts as when the genuine Qi in your body is stopped when it is about to work. This may also cause blockages in the meridians and channels. As a result, the diseases recur. Believe that Qigong will never let you down and success will eventually arrive.
Be persistent in our practice for several years and good results will be achieved.
Do not be in a hurry to achieve success as the negative may result. There is no such thing as "once and for all".